Chapter 216: Russo (2)

Perseus POV

After buying all the herbs needed, we walked into alleyways and dark places in general in the hopes of searching for abandoned buildings for me to make the poison, it smells fucking amazing as I ground the herbs up in a pestle and mortar. So I apply other herbs in order to eliminate the smell, I worry about the taste, cuz this particular one I use is very potent.

Russo is a 7-star mage who regularly consumes a particular herbal drink called the 'life potion', it's basically a drink made with anti-poisonous herbs, and people use it if they're in a position where they can get assassinated. The chief drinks it too, he's in too much of an important position, especially when he goes out.

There are only a couple of people who knows how to get past that poison and it has only one recipe that worked so far. One of the herbs only grows in my village, and it's one of the ones that I used for the anti-aging lotion/cream that I sold mixing it with the powers of the blue rose. I got the recipe from the chief who got the list of recipes passed down from his chief, it's been passed down for while, and I copied the list to use for myself.

I can't believe he trusts me with it, but the guy is like training me and molding me into the net chief, he's forcing me to get into the top 4 because with much tougher competition, getting to that position is almost as good as winning and coming from a guy who's not even properly physically 17 yet, I'll have enough on my resume to fit the requirement as the next chief.

My village truly believes I can be the next Paradis, and getting a high position in the biggest tournament will give me the minimal requirement for me to be given considerable thought of possibly using me as chief Aminu's replacement.

"Don't you want to change the way you dress?" maple asked "You're dressed like Lilith."

"It's just a hoodie with jeans, it looks good and it's something comfortable for me."

"Don't you want to look more...feminine?"

"I'm here to meet him, not to seduce him."

"Please do your normal voice, I'm questioning reality right now." Maple requested as I cleared my throat and got back to my normal voice "You dress like your regular self."

"And? Is there something wrong with that? As you said, Lilith does this too, and she's pretty popular."

"You aren't Lilith, you're incredibly pretty, but you have to stand out more, you have sent your portrait in the papers, right?" Maple asked "They painted you in a white gown."

"And I hate wearing dresses, just because I can look and sound like a woman, doesn't mean I want to necessarily dress like one."

"If you're gonna do the job, you have at least do it right, Persia is known as a beautiful singing dancer, so be like it."

"Oh, you think I'm beautiful?"

"That's not the point."

"So it isn't a no..."

"I'm helping you here, it'll increase your chances, if you're going to do something, do it right." she said as she then took out a blouse and some other pieces of clothes "Here, I got my makeup kit."

"I think the gap moe between you being timid and assertive is like really beautiful, but I'm not wearing that, I look like I'm dressing for a first date."

After being forcefully convinced by the much stronger goddess, well, I can't believe that Maple made me dress like this, we got to the rally or whatever and I managed to mingle amongst the nobles, it didn't take long, but one noble noticed who I was immediately, and I use my powers in between my words to get them to tell me what I want.

Luckily the guy in front of me knows how to get me to meet Russo backstage since he's an organizer for this event if I promised to talk with him about joining a cast of performers who are performing for his mother's birthday, he said we can go there right now and so I followed, I insert mana into my communication crystal and alerted Orion, signaling them to keep a tight lookout.

On our way back there, I knocked the noble out and I then took out my poison and put some on his fingers and clothes. I then use my illusion powers to put a projection of myself looking like as if I'm waiting on a nearby bench while I took over his form.

I quickly ran to the kitchen using his ID for access, Russo giving out the speech should make him really thirsty, and if Zach was right, Russo loves drinking lemonade, so that's the most likely drink to be drunk by him.

I got to the kitchen and use my powers to talk my way through the staff into getting to the drinks assigned for Russo, sure enough, the lemonade was among them. I then poured my poison down the large flash and lined the glass and other cups with my poison as well, I made it clear as glass with the help of Maple using magic that can't be used by mortals, it should dry out after a while and even if Russo don't drink the lemonade, as long as he drinks out of these glasses, he'll be on his way to the afterlife.

I then took out the rosé and poured it out into my own personal bottle, I finally head out of the kitchen and went to the bench where my illusion was cast. I poured the rosé that was assigned for Russo down his throat a bit and soak a bit of his clothes with it as well. I then got the man on the bench and try to softly shake him awake.

"Hmm, what happened?" the guy asked

"You blacked out, arranging such a big event must have been stressful, so I got you up and have you sat against the bench."

"Ahh...I have been working a bit harder lately, I'll call my employees to help you, thank you for helping me."